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Thinking about reasons : themes from the philosophy of Jonathan Dancy / edited by David Bakhurst, Brad Hooker, and Margaret Olivia Little.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dancy, Jonathan.
- Act (Philosophy).
- Ethics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 349 pages) : illustrations
- Other Title:
- Themes from the philosophy of Jonathan Dancy
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; Cambridge, Mass. : Oxford University Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 'Thinking about Reasons' collects fourteen new essays on ethics and the philosophy of action, inspired by the work of Jonathan Dancy - one of his generation's most influential moral philosophers. Many of the most prominent living thinkers in the area are contributors to this collection, which also contains an afterword by Dancy himself.
- Contents:
- Introduction / Brad Hooker
- 1. Acting in the light of a fact / John McDowell
- 2. Can action explanations ever be non-factive? / Constantine Sandis
- 3. The ideal of orthonomous action, or the how and why of buck-passing / Michael Smith
- 4. Dancy on buck-passing / Philip Stratton-Lake
- 5. Are egoism and consequentialism self-refuting? / Roger Crisp
- 6. In defence of non-deontic reasons / Margaret Olivia Little
- 7. The deontic structure of morality / R. Jay Wallace
- 8. Morality and principle / Stephen Darwall
- 9. Moral particularism : ethical not metaphysical? / David Bakhurst
- 10. A quietist particularism / A.W. Price
- 11. Contours of the practical landscape / David McNaughton and Piers Rawling
- 12. Why holists should love organic unities / Sean McKeever and Michael Ridge
- 13. Practical reasoning and inference / John Broome
- 14. Why there really are no irreducibly normative properties / Bart Streumer.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on July 1, 2013).
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Other Format:
- Print version
- ISBN:
- 0-19-166913-X
- OCLC:
- 866592651
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